May 8, 2005, Sunday

To the Editor: It doesn't take a ''loyal son,'' as Max Frankel kindly calls me in his review of G. Edward White's ''Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars'' (Feb. 29), to see that White's book is a book with problems. White presents a psychological...

February 29, 2004, Sunday

An illustrated timeline last Sunday about the history of espionage misstated the date of Alger Hiss's conviction for perjury. Hiss was convicted in 1950, not 1951. The piece also omitted attribution for the suggestion that documents supporting Hiss's...

September 15, 2002, Sunday

THE Alger Hiss case, which swirled through the second half of the 20th century with low-tech evidence like documents that may or may not have come from a certain manual typewriter, has made it into the 21st century and onto the Internet. And so has...

The passion for Whittaker Chambers burns brightly in the Bush White House. On the 40th anniversary of his death, Mr. Chambers, the onetime Communist spy who denounced Alger Hiss as a fellow member of an elite Washington espionage cell, was...